The Castle of Love Festival, a two-day music festival, returned for the ninth year to the historic and wooded environs of Castle Park Erenstein near Kerkrade, a city on the Netherlands side of the Netherlands/Germany border Aug. 16-17, 2014. With 20,000 visitors looking to dance to the beat of popular acts including The Partysquad, Yellow Claw, Sick Individuals and Jay Hardway, LD Tom Franken was looking for gear that would inject electrified excitement into the normally serene surroundings.
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Guy Pavelo of GPDesign.net was the production designer and creative director for the recent Drake vs. Lil Wayne concerts that toured arenas throughout the U.S. this year. He previously designed Drake’s performance at last year’s Toronto-based OVO festival and his Would You Like a Tour? 2013 tour. This design morphed out of what Pavelo created for Drake’s performances at this year’s OVO festival at Toronto’s Molson Arena. PLSN sat down to speak with the designer about how he approaches his designs overall, his knack for pushing technology, and about this tour, for which he also operated the lighting on the road.
Read More »NEW YORK – WorldStage announced five new hires, across a wide range of departments, at its East and West Coast offices. The company named Susanna Harris-Rea lighting project manager, Frank Musgrove senior video engineer, Russell Cowans audio engineer and Gus Garces and Greg Duffin staging project managers.
Read More »LONDON – For the past several months the Tower of London, part of the Historic Royal Palaces, and its ambitious sculptural commission, Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, have been a central symbol of the UK’s WWI Centenary observations. The display, which grew in size over time, marked each commonwealth casualty of WWI – 888,246 in total – with a hand-made red ceramic poppy “planted” by volunteers around the venue’s exterior. Entertainment and event production supplier White Light has been closely involved in the event, providing lighting, sound, and video support services for the opening ceremony on Aug. 5 and closing ceremony on Nov. 11 (Remembrance Day), as well as providing lighting for the entire poppy display throughout its three-month installation.
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LONDON – For Katy B’s recent U.K. tour, LD Tom Campbell specified a rig that included Showline SL NITRO 510C LED strobes. The fixtures helped blend the artist’s signature dubstep/garage sound with a lighting design evocative of nightclub looks.
PARAMARIBO, Suriname — The brief for designing the lighting at Next nightclub in the Ramada Paramaribo Princess Hotel in Suriname near South America’s Atlantic coast was to make it funky, fun and classy, noted Michael Pereira from Streamline Systems. That is why he chose Robe and Anolis for the main elements of the lighting installation.
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LAS VEGAS – Marquee Nightclub is consistently one of the highest grossing nightclubs in Las Vegas and one of the hottest and most luxurious nightclubs around. Located in the heart of the Strip, Marquee underwent a major LED lighting system upgrade recently with LD Steve Lieberman, owner of SJ Lighting, using over 1,100 new Elation Pixel Bar 40 LED strip lights to create a memorable 360-degree immersive experience.
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ORMOND BEACH, FL – Tomoka Christian Church upgraded to a Jands Vista I3 console to support the lighting rig at a new worship venue. The non-denominational, missions-oriented church offers contemporary praise and worship featuring live music, dance, and drama in a multimedia service. The church’s new venue is using the Jands Vista I3 console alongside its existing Vista M1 control surface, which had been in use for several years.
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TOKYO – ETC’s Selador Desire D60 Daylight luminaires helped the technical crew of Fuji Television Network Inc. (Fuji TV) and Fuji Media Technology Inc. (fmt) overcome the challenge of finding the right fixture to light a set built in the globe-shaped observation room located on the 24th floor of their building in Japan.
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